But Minshew chose the Crimson Tide, a team entering the spring with one of its most compelling quarterback quandaries of the Nick Saban era.

Twenty-eight game starter Jalen Hurts will duel with sophomore Tua Tagovailoa — who relieved Hurts in the second half of the national championship and directed Alabama to a victory against Georgia.

Should one of those two transfer or get injured, Alabama’s lone scholarship quarterback behind them is Mac Jones, a four-star prospect and Elite 11 participant in 2016 who took a redshirt last season as a true freshman.

Saban said in December he ideally likes four scholarship quarterbacks on his roster.

Minshew affords the Tide the experienced depth Jones does not, filling a need it failed to address in its 2018 recruiting class — the first in 13 years that did not include a quarterback.

“When you have really good young players at a position, sometimes it’s hard to attract another guy at that particular position,” Saban said on National Signing Day. “I think you all know our circumstance at quarterback right now with the players we have here, the grade they are in and how much more eligibility they have. So rather reach for somebody, we would rather try to solve the issue another way. Maybe get a more experienced guy down the road.”